• Temtaime (6/6) Jan 14 2018 Phobos comes with zlib, curl and sqlite bindings.
• Steven Schveighoffer (9/15) Jan 15 2018 The inclusion of etc in general has been considered a mistake. Since

Temtaime <temtaime gmail.com> writes:

Phobos comes with zlib, curl and sqlite bindings.
Zlib sources come with phobos, so there's no need to build and 
link with it separately.
Why there's no curl and sqlite sources ?

For example sqlite comes as 1 file. I think we can add it too, 
isn't it ?

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On 1/14/18 1:17 PM, Temtaime wrote:
 Phobos comes with zlib, curl and sqlite bindings.
 Zlib sources come with phobos, so there's no need to build and link with 
 it separately.
 Why there's no curl and sqlite sources ?
 
 For example sqlite comes as 1 file. I think we can add it too, isn't it ?

The inclusion of etc in general has been considered a mistake. Since 
they were added, dub has obviated any need to include such things in 
Phobos. In fact there have been efforts to remove them from Phobos 
(https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4283).

That being said, zlib is quite a static library. The others are actively 
developed, and we shouldn't need to keep updating all our sources when 
the external dependencies change.

-Steve